Dr Abelardo Pardo

Lecturer

Teaching Duties

I teach the following courses:

• ELEC5618 Software Quality Engineering (4^th year, 1^st semester)
• ELEC1601 Foundations of Computer Systems (1^st year, 2^nd semester)

Research

My research interests are in the area of technology enhanced learning with emphasis on learning and behavioral analytics, computer supported collaborative learning, and personalization of learning experiences. I am member of the steering committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research. In my (scarce) spare time, I try to maintain active the blog T2T. Techies meet Teachers where I comment on issues related to technology when used in learning experiences.

Keynotes, invited talks and presentations

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• Invited presentation. Learning Analytics: Sensing and making sense of Learning Activities. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Harnessing Unobtrusive Sensing to Understand Human Behaviour for Lifelong Goals, Sydney, 2013.

• Keynote presentation. Bridging the Middle Space with Learning Analytics. Keynote presentation at the International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Leuven, Belgium, 10-12 April 2013.

• Invited lecture. Practical privacy issues around Learning Analytics. Invited lecture at the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Learning Analytics and Knolwedge, April 2013.

• Invited talk. Pushing the MOOC envelope with Learning Analytics. Invited talk at the Seminar on the Future of MOOCs and Digital Libreries, Fukuoka, Japan, February 2013.

• Invited talk. Using Learning Analytics to Help Flip the Classroom. Invited talk at the Seminar The Sciences and Technologies of Learning, The University of Sydney, Australia, February 2013.

• Invited talk. Using Learning Analytics to Help Flip the Classroom. Faculty of Law Seminar of Teaching and Learning. University of Technology Sydney, Australia, March 2013.

• Flip with care. Presentation given at the Solar Southern Flare Conference held in Sydney, November 2012.

• Invited talk. Behavioral Analytics: Observe, Process, and Act. Invited talk at National ICT Australia (NICTA), December 2012.

• Invited lecture. Let me intervene. Influencing a learning environment through analytics. Invited lecture at the 8th JTEL Summer School held in May 2012 in Estoril.

• Extending Course Level Learning Analytics with Linked Data. Workshop on Learning Analytics and Linked Data held at the International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2012 Vancouver, BC, April/May 2012.

• Invited lecture. What if we could observe all events in a learning environment?. Invited lecture at the Master in ICT, University of Valladolid, April 2012.

• Invited talk. Let me see... Analytics in Learning Environments (Video, Slides). Invited talk at the eMadrid Seminar, March 2012.

• Stepping out of the box. Toward Learning Analytics outside of the LMS (Video). Presented at the First International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, February 2011.

Recent projects

I am currently (or was at some point) involved in the following research projects:

• Educational Reflected Spaces: Nowadays education does not happen exclusively face-to-face, in the physical space. Neither does it happen exclusively through online tools in the virtual space. There is a continuous transfer from one space to another: certain activities are done in the classroom, some are accessed on a web virtual learning environment or a 3D world, then the students collaborate either physically or digitally, etc. Recent technological advances open broad opportunities to link these spaces, thus enabling the realization of an “extended ubiquitous learning” settings that incorporate and coordinate objects and activities from them all. That is the underlying basis of Educational Reflected Spaces. Three kinds of spaces are considered by this project: the web space, the 3D virtual space, and the augmented physical space.

• eMadrid: Research and development network about e-learning technologies in the Madrid Region. The eMadrid Network is a project funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, which promotes research and development of technologies to support learning (Technology-Enhanced Learning). Coordinated by the University Carlos III of Madrid, it has as partners the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and UNED, having other universities and companies as associated entities.

See my complete research activity.

Recent Publications

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• Luis De-la-Fuente-Valentín, Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Davinia Hernández-Leo, Abelardo Pardo, Josep Blat, Carlos Delgado Kloos. Technological Support for the Enactment of Collaborative Scripted Learning Activities Across Multiple Spatial Locations. Future Generation Computer Systems. In print.

• Davinia Hernandez-Leo, Verónica M. Oliver, Juan Manuel Dodero, Abelardo Pardo, Maricarmen Romero-Ternero, Yannis Dimitriadis, José Ignacio Asensio-Perez. Applying Recommendations to Align Competences, Methodology, and Assessment in Telematics, Computing, and Electronic Engineering Courses. IEEE Journal of Latin-American Learning Technologies, 8(1), 15–22, 2013. doi:10.1109/RITA.2013.2244696

• Abelardo Pardo. Social learning graphs: combining social network graphs and analytics to represent learning experiences. International Journal on Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments, Vol. 1, No. 1, pages 44-53, 2013.

• Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos. Addressing drop-out and sustained effort issues with large practical groups using an automated delivery and assessment system. Computer & Education, Vol. 61, pages 33-42 February 2013.

• Derick Leony, Pedro Muñoz-Merino, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Provision of awareness of learners’ emotions through visualizations in a computer interaction-based environment. Expert Systems with Applications, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2013.03.030

• Jesús Arias Fisteus, Abelardo Pardo, Norberto Fernández García. Grading multiple choice exams with low-cost and portable computer-vision techniques. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012, 10.1007/s10956-012-9414-8.

• Abelardo Pardo, Jesus Arias Fisteus, Carlos Delgado Kloos. A Distributed Collaborative System for Flexible Learning Content Production and Management. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 44, Issue 2, pages 203-221, 2012.

• Abelardo Pardo. Virtualization Increases Institutional Knowledge of Student Learning Activities. EDUCAUSE Review Online, July/August 2012.

• Katrien Verbert, Xavier Ochoa, Michael Derntl, Martin Wolpers, Abelardo Pardo, Erik Duval. Semi-automatic Assembly of Learning Resources. Computers & Education, Vol. 59, Num. 4, pages 1257-1272.

• Carlos Delgado Kloos, Abelardo Pardo, Mario Muñoz-Organero, Mª Blanca Ibáñez, Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Carmen Fernández-Panadero, Raquel M. Crespo, José J. García Rueda, Luis de la Fuente, Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Hugo A. Parada G., Derick Leony, Israel Gutiérrez, David Maroto. Gradient UC3M. IE Comunicaciones Revista Iberoamericana de Informática Educativa Num. 15, January-June 2012, pp. 75-84.

• Raquel Crespo García, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Katja Niemann, Maren Scheffel, Martin Wolpers. Peeking into the black box: visualising learning activities. International Journal on Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 4, Issue 1/2, pp. 99-120, 2012.

• Luis de-la-Fuente-Valentín, Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Patricia Santos, Davinia Hernández-Leo, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Josep Blat. "System orchestration support for a collaborative blended learning flow". Intelligent Adaptation and Personalization Techniques in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", pp 29-46. Springer, 2012 ISBN: 978-3-642-28585-1.

• Davinia Hernández-Leo, Verónica Moreno, Juan Manuel Dodero, Abelardo Pardo, M.C. Romero-Ternero, Yannis Dimitriadis, Juan I. Asensio-Pérez. "Aplicación de Recomendaciones para la Alineación de Competencias, Metodología y Evaluación en Asignaturas de Ingeniería Telemática, Informática y Electrónica". Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje, Vol. 7, Num. 1, pages 13-30, Feb. 2012. ISBN: 1932-8540

• Vicente A. Romero Zaldívar, Abelardo Pardo, Daniel Burgos, Carlos Delgado Kloos "Monitoring Student Progress Using Virtual Appliances: A Case Study". Computers & Education, Vol. 58, Issue 4, May 2012, pages 1058–1067.

• Vicente Arturo Romero Zaldívar, Daniel Burgos, Abelardo Pardo. "Meta-rule based Recommender Systems for Educational Applications". In "Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies: Practices and Challenges". IGI-Global Group. Chapter 9, pages 211-231, 2012, ISBN: 9781613504895.

See my complete list of publications.

Recent Conference Papers

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• Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Abelardo Pardo. Visualizing the effect of actions in personal informatics systems. In Proceedings of the CHI Workshop "Personal Informatics in the Wild: Hacking Habits for Health & Happiness", 2013, ACM Press.

• A. Pardo, M. Pérez-Sanagustín, H. A. Parada G. and D. Leony. "Flip with care". SoLAR Southern Flare Conference, Sydney, 2012.

• D. Leony, A. Pardo, H. A. Parada G., and C. Delgado Kloos. "A cloud-based architecture for an affective recommender system of learning resources". In International Workshop on Cloud Educational Environments, Ceur Conference Proceedings, Vol. 945, pages 41-46, 2012.

• D. Leony, A. Pardo, H. A. Parada G., C. Delgado Kloos. "A widget to recommend learning resources based on the learner affective state". Workshop on Motivational and Affective Aspects of Technology Enhanced Learning, Sept. 2012.

• D. Leony, A. Pardo, L. de la Fuente Valentín, I. Quiñones, C. Delgado Kloos. "Learning analytics in the LMS: Using browser extensions to embed visualizations into a Learning Management System". Workshop "Towards Theory and Practice of Teaching Analytics", Sept. 2012.

• M. Sheffel, K. Niemann, D. Leony, A. Pardo, H.-Ch. Schmitz, M. Wolpers, C. Delgado Kloos. Key Action Extraction for Learning Analytics. European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL), pages 320-333, Springer, 2012.

• Derick Leony, Raquel M. Crespo, Mar Perez-Sanagustín, Hugo A. Parada G., Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Abelardo Pardo. Coverage metrics for learning-event datasets based on client-side monitoring. 1st Workshop on Bootstrapping Learning Analytics (BLA’12) held at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), July 2012.

• Sten Govaerts, Katrien Verbert, Erik Duval, Abelardo Pardo. "The Student Activity Meter for Awareness and Self-reflection". ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), pp. 869-884, May 2012, Austin, TX, USA.

• Derick Leony, Abelardo Pardo, Luis de la Fuente Valentín, David Sánchez de Castro, Carlos Delgado Kloos. "GLASS: A Learning Analytics Visualization Tool". Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK 2012, pages 162-163, ACM Press, May 2012.

• Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carmen Fernández-Panadero, Mª Blanca Ibáñez, Mario Muñoz, Abelardo Pardo. "m-Learning will Disrupt Educational Practices". EDUCON Global Engineering Education Conference. Marrakesh, Morocco, April 2012.

See my complete list of conference and workshop papers.